Limefinger Solace Polish Hill River Riesling 2025
- 97
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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Reduced to a mere fraction of its usual production thanks to frost, only 780 bottles of this scintillating Riesling from the Polish Hill River sub-region were made in this vintage. The colour again is the very palest lemon/yellow. On the nose there is a real minerally note, with granite, river stones and wet slate, but then also the typical zesty limes and florals. This is taut and tense, there is real power here. Hints of chalk, talc and bath salts on the palate, it exhibits wonderful length. Twenty years without hesitation. If you had to pick between these two Limefinger Rieslings, toss a coin. I can’t split them. But don’t miss them.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
